Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale

Re-Orienting the Fairy Tale: Contemporary Adaptations across Cultures edited by Mayako Murai and Luciana Cardi, published in Wayne State University Press’s prestigious “Studies in Fairy-Tale Studies” series, brings together emerging and established scholars in various disciplines from around the world who seek to “reorient the fairy tale” across different cultures, languages, media, technologies, and disciplines. Their aim is to track the ever-expanding network of fairy tales’ malleable forms within a global context, while paying special attention on unjustly neglected non-Euro-American materials’ local specificities, with the ultimate goal “to decenter existing cultural and methodological assumptions underlying fairy-tale studies.” This agenda admittedly elaborates on Cristina Bacchilega’s idea of “the fairy-tale web” and Donald Haase and Sadhana Naithani’s call to “decolonize fairy tales” – both related to socially responsible canon-revisionary endeavors. While Bacchilega envisions the postmillennial fairy tale beyond literary genres as a polyvalent mode of intertextually and geopolitically connected, metafictionally self-aware, creative

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